---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wirecat/max-cli/v/0.87.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wirecat/max-cli/v/0.87.0.md"
package: "@wirecat/max-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.87.0"
---

# @wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 25 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.87.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected install hook is limited to global-install setup, and the credential excerpts show provider-based analysis and explicit session-start handling. The flagged remote-payload and credential-redirection behaviors were not confirmed in the source excerpts reviewed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 77.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T09:07:26.625Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T09:08:26.750Z
- **Download time:** 1551 ms
- **Static scan time:** 14048 ms
- **AI review time:** 44525 ms
- **Total time:** 60125 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No attack was identified in the inspected install and runtime paths.

- **Trigger:** Package installation and explicit CLI commands.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact was established from the inspected source.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T09:08:26.750Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The inspected postinstall wrapper only invokes a global-install helper for global installs. Runtime excerpts show provider-based analysis and session credential flows.

- **Rationale:** The inspected install hook is limited to global-install setup, and the credential excerpts show provider-based analysis and explicit session-start handling. The flagged remote-payload and credential-redirection behaviors were not confirmed in the source excerpts reviewed.

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.openai.com/v1, https://api.anthropic.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 77.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall hook imports the global-install helper only when npm\_config\_global is true., Analysis credentials are read for a selected provider and endpoint; the code defaults to the official OpenAI or Anthropic API URLs., Session token handling is part of an explicit session-start flow that prompts for a token or requires MAX\_TOKEN., Skill installation writes the package's skill content to configured targets.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest's prepare hook runs lefthook, and the postinstall wrapper contains no direct network request., No confirmed code in the inspected excerpts redirects credentials to an unrelated host or executes a fetched payload.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install/postinstall.mjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 4. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/online.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/online.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin/max.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bin/max.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: }
L31: const running = import("../bundle/max.js")
L32: const chunks = ["../bundle/all-profiles-U4DPH36S.js","../bundle/anthropic-QBLWYXQL.js","../bundle/app-W5IJLNZP.js","../bundle/app-server-RWB25QEQ.js","../bundle/bun-VISY2K73.js","....
```

### 8. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 9. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L456: secretInputOf,
L457: setExitCode,
L458: settingsFor,
...
L758: while (pos < strLength) {
L759: let value2 = str.charCodeAt(pos++);
L760: if ((value2 & 4294967168) === 0) {
...
L3247: const data = /* @__PURE__ */ __name((chunk) => {
L3248: buffered += typeof chunk === "string" ? chunk : decoder.write(chunk);
L3249: if (take())
...
L3273: // node_modules/.pnpm/@wirecat+cli-core@0.478.0_@napi-rs+canvas@1.0.13_@wirecat+cli-base@0.65.0_commander@15._b9ecca127e33fd8d28faa11e12220a05/node_modules/@wirecat/cli-core/dist/b...
L3274: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3275: import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29599: // dist/session/browser.js
L29600: import { spawn as spawn6 } from "node:child_process";
L29601: import { existsSync as existsSync19, mkdtempSync, realpathSync as realpathSync6, rmSync as rmSync7 } from "node:fs";
...
L29607: };
L29608: var WEB_MAX = "https://web.max.ru/";
L29609: var AUTH_KEY = "__oneme_auth";
L29610: var findChromium = /* @__PURE__ */ __name(() => {
L29611: const named2 = process.env.MAX_BROWSER;
L29612: if (named2)
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js:
writeFileAtomic
import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
writeFileSync(output, Buffer.concat(agent ? out : [...out, ...err]), { mode: 384 });
writeFileSync(errors, Buffer.concat(err), { mode: 384 });
var providerIdentity = /* @__PURE__ */ __name((target) => `${target.provider}:${target.baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "")}`, "providerIdentity");
if (!endpoint(target.baseUrl))
const override = options.analysisProvider !== void 0 && options.analysisProvider !== saved || options.baseUrl !== void 0 && options.baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "") !== conf
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L456: secretInputOf,
L457: setExitCode,
L458: settingsFor,
...
L758: while (pos < strLength) {
L759: let value2 = str.charCodeAt(pos++);
L760: if ((value2 & 4294967168) === 0) {
...
L3247: const data = /* @__PURE__ */ __name((chunk) => {
L3248: buffered += typeof chunk === "string" ? chunk : decoder.write(chunk);
L3249: if (take())
...
L3273: // node_modules/.pnpm/@wirecat+cli-core@0.478.0_@napi-rs+canvas@1.0.13_@wirecat+cli-base@0.65.0_commander@15._b9ecca127e33fd8d28faa11e12220a05/node_modules/@wirecat/cli-core/dist/b...
L3274: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3275: import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 15. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L456: secretInputOf,
L457: setExitCode,
L458: settingsFor,
...
L758: while (pos < strLength) {
L759: let value2 = str.charCodeAt(pos++);
L760: if ((value2 & 4294967168) === 0) {
...
L3247: const data = /* @__PURE__ */ __name((chunk) => {
L3248: buffered += typeof chunk === "string" ? chunk : decoder.write(chunk);
L3249: if (take())
...
L3273: // node_modules/.pnpm/@wirecat+cli-core@0.478.0_@napi-rs+canvas@1.0.13_@wirecat+cli-base@0.65.0_commander@15._b9ecca127e33fd8d28faa11e12220a05/node_modules/@wirecat/cli-core/dist/b...
L3274: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3275: import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-R52KGIUV.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/chunk-R52KGIUV.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
account_id: integer2,
      event_id: integer2,
      series_id: integer2,
      query: text,
      limit: integer2,
      page: integer2
    },
    required: []
  },
  {
    name: "meeting_show",
    description: "show a stored meeting",
    properties: { meeting: integer2, account_id: integer2 },
    required: ["meeting"]
  },
  {
    name: "meeting_transcript",
    description: "show current meeting transcripts",
    properties: { meeting: integer2, account_id: integer2, history: { type: "boolean" } },
    required: ["meeting"]
  },
  {
    name: "meeting_summary",
    description: "show stored meeting summaries",
    properties: { meeting: integer2, account_id: integer2 },
```

### 17. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-WUE7XPBG.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/chunk-WUE7XPBG.js>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30680: contains invisible/control Unicode U+202A (left-to-right embedding)
  let plain2 = name === void 0 ? "" : basename7(name.replaceAll("\\", "/")).replace(/[\p{Cc}<U+200B>-<U+200F><U+202A>-<U+202E><U+2066>-<U+2069>]/gu, "").replace(/^\.+/, "");
```

### 18. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-CWQNOMHO.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/chunk-CWQNOMHO.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/bundle/chunk-CWQNOMHO.js spawns dist/bundle/chunk-7UB4TQNF.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L22: // node_modules/.pnpm/@wirecat+cli-core@0.478.0_@napi-rs+canvas@1.0.13_@wirecat+cli-base@0.65.0_commander@15._b9ecca127e33fd8d28faa11e12220a05/node_modules/@wirecat/cli-core/dist/c...
L23: import { spawn as spawn2 } from "node:child_process";
L24: 
...
L70: var nodeRuntime = /* @__PURE__ */ __name(() => ({
L71: env: process.env,
L72: platform: process.platform,
L73: bun: "Bun" in globalThis,
...
L142: stdin: process.stdin,
L143: stdout: process.stdout,
L144: stderr: process.stderr,
...
L245: logVersion(argvLog);
L246: io.stdout.write(`${app.version}
```

### 19. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/bin/max.js -> dist/bundle/max.js -> dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 20. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> dist/bin/max.js -> dist/bundle/max.js -> dist/bundle/program-GCRQ6GEJ.js
L456: secretInputOf,
L457: setExitCode,
L458: settingsFor,
...
L758: while (pos < strLength) {
L759: let value2 = str.charCodeAt(pos++);
L760: if ((value2 & 4294967168) === 0) {
...
L3247: const data = /* @__PURE__ */ __name((chunk) => {
L3248: buffered += typeof chunk === "string" ? chunk : decoder.write(chunk);
L3249: if (take())
...
L3273: // node_modules/.pnpm/@wirecat+cli-core@0.478.0_@napi-rs+canvas@1.0.13_@wirecat+cli-base@0.65.0_commander@15._b9ecca127e33fd8d28faa11e12220a05/node_modules/@wirecat/cli-core/dist/b...
L3274: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3275: import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeF
```

### 21. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 22. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 23. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install/windows.ps1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/install/windows.ps1>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = install/windows.ps1
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 7422
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 24. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 25. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/chunk-GPG2P2PK.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@wirecat/max-cli@0.87.0/dist/bundle/chunk-GPG2P2PK.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 8
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 19
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 11

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/server 2.4.0 (Dependency)
- @msgpack/msgpack 3.1.3 (Dependency)
- @valibot/to-json-schema 1.8.0 (Dependency)
- @wirecat/cli-base 0.65.0 (Dependency)
- @wirecat/cli-core 0.478.0 (Dependency)
- commander 15.0.0 (Dependency)
- lossless-json 4.3.3 (Dependency)
- ogg-opus-decoder 1.7.5 (Dependency)
- sherpa-onnx 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- valibot 1.5.0 (Dependency)
- ws 8.22.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @wirecat/max-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.87.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T09:04:12.475Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-10T12:23:19.587Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T17:50:11.702Z
- **Known versions:** 56
- **Latest version:** 0.98.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** MAX Messenger bots through the official Bot API, and a personal MAX account, from the terminal — built for agents and scripts
- **Author:** Viacheslav Ptsarev
- **Maintainers:** leemour
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.16.0 || \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 686
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 13,409,888 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wirecat/max-cli/v/0.87.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/WireCatLabs/max-cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/WireCatLabs/max-cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/WireCatLabs/max-cli/issues>)
